Quotes About Freedom

God, having made us free, will not heal our disorder without our assent.

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

Communism is the very opposite of liberalism. Liberalism means increased rights for the citizen; a curb on the powers of the central government; freedom of speech, religion, and the press.

If our past fences us in with resentment and with desires for revenge, we are old before our time because the past holds us captive. If I can't forgive someone who has hurt me in the past, even if the hurting was mean and intentional, I am letting them control me years later. It is enough that someone hurt me when I was five or fifteen or fifty. Why let them continue to hurt me today? Why should I allow their

Why should I allow their deeds to control me still, decades later?

They killed to free themselves from a tyranny of love and care.

People no longer need enemies--in this millennium their great dream is to become victims. Only their psychopathies can set them free.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

If liberty is to be preserved against the materialistic paternalism of the modern state, there must be something more than courts and legal guarantees; freedom must be written not merely in the constitution but in the people's heart. And it can be written in the heart, we believe, only as a result of the redeeming work of Christ. Other means in the long run will fail.

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

Here lies Dobby, a free elf.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house. —Annie Oakley (1860–1926), American sharpshooter and women's rights advocate W

When we stop trying to force pleasant feelings, they are freer to emerge on their own . When we stop trying to resist unpleasant feelings, we may find that they can drift away by themselves . When we stop trying to make something happen, a whole world of fresh and unanticipated experiences may become accessible to us.

Our habitual efforts to extricate ourselves, far from freeing us, actually keep us locked in the pain we're trying to escape.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

The greatest power a person possesses is the power to choose.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

The Singing Revolution

Welcome, my dear, to the Western world, land of democracy, freedom, and bigotry.

There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and refuse to conform. He'll be on his own, that's true, but while he will not have the security enjoyed by those who do conform, there will be no limits to what he may achieve.

It shouldn't be very difficult for anyone to resist the temptation to force himself into the pattern of the structured man. One needs only to remember that a groove may be safe--but that, as one wears away at it, the groove becomes first a rut and finally a grave.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

The wide world is all about you. You can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.